Artificial Intelligence as an ontic opportunity for humans according to K. Malabou’s concept of plasticity

Abstract

In the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel describes the act of the God-incarnation as an ontic possibility for God and an ontological possibility for man. A perfect but unimaginable God comes to fallen humanity in the form of Jesus Christ, a man who embodied the perfection of God. Catherine Malabou calls such a meeting plastic. Plasticity is not the elasticity of rubber, which knows its shape and strives to return to it. Plasticity is not the ability of plastic to fill a steel billet and solidify in it. Plasticity is the property of clay to take the form of a vase in the hands of a potter, remaining clay. Using the concept of “plasticity”, we will try to describe such a meeting of man with AI, in which man changes places with God and appears face to face as the creator in front of his creation, the ideal form of human intelligence – AI. We will show why the expectation of such a meeting is accompanied by both anticipation and anxiety of mankind. AI is looking for the perfect shape, and man is not yet ready to recognize it.